Andre Schwarz-Bart
André Schwarz-Bart (born with Metz the May 23rd 1928 and deceased the September 30th 2006 with Point-with-Clown (Guadeloupe) is a writer French of Jewish origin Polish.
Resisting, wire and brother of deportees. Its work is composed of an essential work, the last of right the , literary transposition of the Shoah through the destiny of an Jewish family since the first Croisade until Auschwitz, " a book majeur" according to the terms of the writer Nobel Prize of Peace Elie Wiesel, for the future generations which will be rewarded by the Prix Goncourt in 1959.
Andre will also publish an exceptional novel the Mulatto Loneliness who belongs to the historical writings impossible to circumvent of the West-Indian literature.
André Schwarz-Bart lived these last years in Guadeloupe, his ground of adoption, in a discretion which was expensive to him, with his wife Simone Schwarz-Bart, originating in the island. Together, they wrote a dish of pig to green bananas and an encyclopedia Hommage to the black woman .
In September 2006, André was promoted with the rank of officer in the Order of Arts and the Letters.
He is the father of Jacques Schwarz-Bart, saxophonist of jazz.
Works
- the last of right the - Price Goncourt 1959
- the Mulatto Loneliness , the Threshold, 1972
- a dish of pig to green bananas , 1967, and Homage to the black woman (in collaboration with Simone Schwarz-Bart)
External bonds
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ITW and video of Andre Schwarz-Bart. Document ORTF/INA 1959 five columns with the one:
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Biography with bibliographical references: